Facing up : science and its cultural adversaries /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | ebrary Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Science as a Liberal Art
- 2. Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of Congressional Testimony
- 3. Newton's Dream
- 4. Confronting O'Brien
- 5. The Heritage of Galileo
- 6. Nature Itself
- 7. The Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge
- 8. The Methods of Science ... and Those by Which We Live
- 9. Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist
- 10. Reductionism Redux
- 11. Physics and History
- 12. Sokal's Hoax
- 13. Science and Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange
- 14. Before the Big Bang
- 15. Zionism and Its Adversaries
- 16. The Red Camaro
- 17. The Non-Revolution of Thomas Kuhn
- 18. T.S. Kuhn's Non-Revolution: An Exchange
- 19. The Great Reduction: Physics in the Twentieth Century
- 20. A Designer Universe?
- 21. "A Designer Universe?": An Exchange
- 22. Five and a Half Utopias
- 23. Looking for Peace in the Science Wars.